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http://espn.go.com/college-football...-maurice-clarett-became-star-speaking-circuit
Maurice Clarett, the accidental athlete whisperer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Maurice Clarett needs a volunteer.
Standing in an auditorium inside Doak Campbell Stadium, Clarett is concluding an hour-long presentation to Florida State's football team. He summons a player to the front and asks him to describe two things: a real man and a real n---a.
Clarett went through the same exercise as an inmate at Toledo Correctional Institution, where he served 42 months for aggravated robbery.
"I joked and talked more about what it was to be a real n---a and a gangsta than a man," Clarett recalls.
Clarett's case manager, Kenneth Rupert, told him he should be embarrassed.
"He said, 'Maurice, you don't know integrity, responsibility, accountability. All these characteristics are what make a man. How do you expect to function?'" Clarett says. "I have sex with women, I piss in the toilet, I play football, but I have no understanding of what it takes to be a man."
It hits on Clarett's central theme to the Seminoles: Without personal development, the biggest and strongest men often remain lost boys.
"A lot of y'all need to grow the f--- up," Clarett says. "That's the bottom line."
When finished, FSU players and coaches give Clarett a standing ovation. Coach Jimbo Fisher tells the team Clarett delivered one of the most "real" talks he has heard in 28 years in the game. Tight ends coach Tim Brewster, a Denver Broncos assistant during Clarett's brief time as a Broncos draft pick, congratulates Clarett on "an amazing success story."
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Maurice Clarett, the accidental athlete whisperer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Maurice Clarett needs a volunteer.
Standing in an auditorium inside Doak Campbell Stadium, Clarett is concluding an hour-long presentation to Florida State's football team. He summons a player to the front and asks him to describe two things: a real man and a real n---a.
Clarett went through the same exercise as an inmate at Toledo Correctional Institution, where he served 42 months for aggravated robbery.
"I joked and talked more about what it was to be a real n---a and a gangsta than a man," Clarett recalls.
Clarett's case manager, Kenneth Rupert, told him he should be embarrassed.
"He said, 'Maurice, you don't know integrity, responsibility, accountability. All these characteristics are what make a man. How do you expect to function?'" Clarett says. "I have sex with women, I piss in the toilet, I play football, but I have no understanding of what it takes to be a man."
It hits on Clarett's central theme to the Seminoles: Without personal development, the biggest and strongest men often remain lost boys.
"A lot of y'all need to grow the f--- up," Clarett says. "That's the bottom line."
When finished, FSU players and coaches give Clarett a standing ovation. Coach Jimbo Fisher tells the team Clarett delivered one of the most "real" talks he has heard in 28 years in the game. Tight ends coach Tim Brewster, a Denver Broncos assistant during Clarett's brief time as a Broncos draft pick, congratulates Clarett on "an amazing success story."
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I'm kinda over this OVI thing. Not the best thing in the world to do granted but the crazy number of people pulled over for it now is past the shocking stage. Pay the fine and go on.
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That is a serious injury for Willis McGahee
yah no big deal except we are talking about a person who was in prison for robbing someone of their cell phone and then got in a high speed chase with the cops with assault rifle's and alcohol...maybe thats not a big deal for some...well for me the big deal is that he is going on a cross country campus tour giving speeches to college athletes and students about what NOT to do with your life...using himself as a prime example in the process...now any credibility he has is completely shot...and i gave him the benefit of the doubt until i read this part
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories...o-maurice-clarett-arrested-on-ovi-charge.html
That freedom came to an end Sunday afternoon on I-71 in Morrow County.
Another driver called 911 to report what appeared to be a drunk driver.
“Swerving erratically,” the caller said. “Outside the solid white, back into the middle lane. He went to the far left lane and came back to the right."
The driver follows a black Infiniti SUV for some 20 minutes, as the State Patrol tries to get a trooper to him.
"Wow- whoo!” he exclaimed at one point. “That was close. Almost just took out a little SUV.”
Later in the call, he said the SUV nearly hit a guardrail, and later a bridge.
"He's probably at 85 plus, in the right lane. Now he's back to the middle."
A trooper caught up to the witness in Morrow County, pulling over the black SUV.
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To be clear, I'm over the OVI process in Ohio, not necessarily each individual case such as Mo's. If he's that bad off he's far beyond wrong. I just don't feel like the whole thing is that clear cut. More a political stance in my opinion so I'll leave it at that.
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No. There was not an AK-47 in the car. There was a post ban semi-automatic rifle based on the Kalashnikov design. It was most likely a Chinese MAK-90 (it's hard to tell from the pic).
Yes the prosecutor's office and the media initially referred to it as an AK-47 but neither source is exactly authoritative.
Somehow I managed to have typo in my initial post, leaving out the 'semi-' in front of automatic. The point was that the rifle was clearly not capable of automatic fire or Clarett would have been charged under the applicable federal statute. (BTW if there was any confusion, Red Foreman's comments were being directed towards Maurice and his latest screw up).
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